WBBR

WBBR is a radio station, broadcasting at 1130 AM in New York City. It airs Bloomberg Radio, a service of Bloomberg Media, which is owned by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Its transmitters are located in Carlstadt, New Jersey.

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Radio station - AM - New York City - Bloomberg Radio - New York City Mayor - Michael Bloomberg - Carlstadt, New Jersey

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WBBR's format is business news, offering a mixture of domestic and foreign financial market updates and interviews with corporate executives and industry analysts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Format - Business news

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The station's origins go back to 1922 as WAAM and 1925 as WODA, both broadcasting from New Jersey. After a merger in 1933, the call letters became WNEW in 1934. The frequency shifted from 1250 to 1130 on March 29, 1941.

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New Jersey - Call letters - March 29 - 1941

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WNEW was one of the most well-known radio stations in the U.S., pioneering the playing of phonograph records of current hit songs. Noted disc jockeys included William B. Williams and Gene Klavan, and later Ted Brown, Bruce Bradley, and Jonathan Schwartz. WNEW continued to play a mix of popular music hits and pop standards for decades. Metromedia owned WNEW through the 1950s into the late 1980s. WNEW was also the home of New York Giants football broadcasts for many years, much of that in an era when radio listenership was high due to home games being blacked out on television.

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Disc jockey - William B. Williams - Gene Klavan - Ted Brown - Bruce Bradley - Jonathan Schwartz - Popular music - Pop standards - Metromedia - 1950s - 1980s - New York Giants

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During December 1992 and January 1993, ownership changed, WNEW came to an end, and the call letters and format changed to their current ones.

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